Cloud service for hospital form auto filling system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9727548-B2
Application number	US-201414194353-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2014
Priority date	Feb 28, 2014
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

Techniques are provided for acquiring form document data representing a form document; parsing the form document data of the form document to extract one or more data information components; identifying a database that stores one or more text strings in association with one or more data text labels; and generating filled form document data of a filled form document. The generating is performed by: for each data information component, of the one or more data information components of the form document, having an associated data text label: based on, at least in part, the associated data text label, retrieving, from the database, a text string that is associated with the data text label; and inserting the text string into a data text field of the data information component at the data text field location.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cloud service device, comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more memories storing instructions which, when processed by the one or more processors, cause the cloud service device to perform:
receiving a first request, wherein the first request is for filling in a form document, and wherein the first request comprises first contents;
parsing the first contents of the first request to generate parsed information;
based on the parsed information, determining whether the first contents comprise geographical location information of a user for whom the first request was sent;
in response to determining that the first contents comprise the geographical location information of the user:
determining, based on the geographical location information of the user, a particular service provider;
based on the particular service provider, determining a particular service provider identifier that identifies the particular service provider;
based on the particular service provider identifier, determining a form document identifier that identifies form document data which represents the form document that the particular service provider is using;
based on the form document identifier:
retrieving the form document data that represents the form document;
parsing the form document data of the form document to identify, in the form document data, one or more data information components;
wherein each data information component, of the one or more data information components identified in the form document data, comprises: a data text label, a data text field, and a data text field location,
wherein the data text label, identified in the form document data, is depicted in the form document as adjacent to the data text field,
wherein the data text field, identified in the form document data, is depicted in the form document at the data text field location,
wherein the data text field location, identified in the form document data, indicates a location of the data text field on the form document, and
wherein the data text field is labelled with the data text label and is to be filled with a text string;

identifying a first personal information database that contains first information for the user and that stores one or more first text strings in association with one or more first data text labels;
generating filled form document data of a filled form document by performing:
for a data information component, of the one or more data information components of the form document, having a data text label, a data text field, and a data text field location:
 based on, at least in part, the data text label, determining whether the first personal information database contains the data text label and a data text string that is associated with the data text label, and if it does, retrieving, from the first personal information database, the data text string that is associated with the data text label; and inserting, in the filled form document, the data text string into the data text field, which is adjacent to the data text label of the data information component, at the data text field location;
determining that one or more data text fields in the filled form document have not been filled in using information stored in the first personal information database; and
in response to determining that the one or more data text fields in the filled form document have not been filled in using the information stored in the first personal information database:
 identifying one or more second data text labels that are associated with the one or more data text fields that have not been filled in the filled form document using the information stored in the first personal information database;
 identifying a second personal information database that contains second information for the user and that stores the one or more second data text labels and one or more second data text strings that are associated with the one or more second data text labels, and
 inserting, into the one or more data text fields in the filled form document, the one or more second text strings that are associated with the one or more second data text labels to complete filling in the filled form document.

2. The cloud service device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more memories store additional instructions which, when processed by the one or more processors, cause the cloud service device to perform:
determining whether the first contents comprise an entity identifier;
in response to determining that the first contents comprise the entity identifier:
identifying a mapping between a plurality of entity identifiers and a plurality of form document identifiers;
using the mapping, determining the form document identifier for the form document data;
using the form document identifier, determining the form document identified by the form document identifier; and
retrieving the form document data of the form document;

determining whether the first contents comprise the geographical location information;
in response to determining that the first contents comprise the geographical location information:
identifying a mapping between the geographical location information and the plurality of form document identifiers;
using the mapping, determining the form document identifier for the form document data;
using the form document identifier, determining the form document identified by the form document identifier; and
retrieving the form document data of the form document.

3. The cloud service device of claim 1 , storing additional instructions which, when processed by the one or more processors, cause the cloud service device to perform:
receiving a second request, wherein the second request is for entering personal information of a user;
parsing second contents of the second request;
determining whether the second contents comprise a user identifier;
in response to determining that the second contents comprise the user identifier:
using the user identifier, identifying the personal information database identified by the user identifier;
receiving the personal information from the user; and
including the personal information in the personal information database;

determining whether the second contents comprise a personal database identifier;
in response to determining that the second contents comprise the personal database identifier:
using the personal database identifier, identifying the personal information database identified by the personal database identifier;
receiving the personal information from the user; and
including the personal information in the personal information database.

4. The cloud service device of claim 1 , wherein the personal information database is implemented at one or more of:
a local database that is locally accessible to the cloud service device;
a remote database that is remotely accessible to the cloud service device;
a server database that is accessible to the cloud service device via a server computer; or
a cloud system database that is accessible to the cloud service device via a cloud service.

5. The cloud service device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more memories store additional instructions which, when processed by the one or more processors, cause the cloud service device to perform:
transmitting the filled form document data to a system device;
wherein the system device comprises any one of: a printing device, a multifunction printing device (MFP), a server system, a cloud system, a display device.

6. The cloud service device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more memories store additional instructions which, when processed by the one or more processors, cause the cloud service device to perform:
acquiring one or more user

Assignees

• Watanabe Kaoru
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Watanabe Kaoru

Classifications

• G06F16/955

  using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL] · CPC title

• G06F40/174 Primary

  Form filling; Merging · CPC title

• G06F16/93 Primary

  Document management systems · CPC title

• G06F40/205

  Parsing · CPC title

• G06F17/2705

  Physics · mapped topic